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CryptureIt: A Free Web App To Encrypt Text Within Images

Umar — Sat, 18 May 2013 04:01:34 +0000

There are numerous ways to encrypt your text using various kinds of keys. But almost always, these tools generate an encrypted text that a viewer can quickly determine the nature of – encryption. If you really want to hide the fact that you have encrypted anything, you should perhaps go for a very effective technique [...]

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Keeb: Store & Share The Favorite Piece Of Webpages You Like

Umar — Sat, 18 May 2013 02:01:27 +0000

Are you trying to save a specific part of a webpage in your collection? Do you want to highlight what is most interesting to you while bookmarking a page? If yes, then you really cannot use the features the come built into your browser. The only feature you get there is standard webpage bookmarking that [...]

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Wakelock Detector: Find Out Which Apps Drain Your Battery Due To Wakelock Feature [Android]

azim — Sat, 18 May 2013 00:01:00 +0000

On Android, the apps use the feature called “wakelock” to keep your smartphone running even after you turned it off. This feature is used by the apps to complete an operation (e.g. getting updates from the Internet) even if you decide to turn off your phone. So if you ever wondered why your screen doesn’t [...]

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FontPro: Find & Download Lots Of Free Fonts

Dave LeClair — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:23 +0000

Do you work in design, or any field where you need to download fonts for use on your project? If so, you know that finding top quality fonts is often easier said than done. Plenty of websites offer free fonts, but many of them are filled with ads, and a lot of the fonts are [...]

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SkyPath: Sync Pictures From iPhone To Desktop Via ImageShack [iOS]

azim — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:01:45 +0000

If you have an iPhone it is very easy and convenient to take photos with it on the go. However, syncing your photos manually to your desktop is not as easy. Apple introduced iCloud as a native way to store and back up your data in the cloud. However, if you don’t like iCloud for [...]

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BirdDrop: Use Twitter’s Mobile Version From The Mac Menu Bar

Justin Pot — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:01:29 +0000

Add the mobile version of Twitter to your Mac’s menu bar. BirdDrop is a Mac app that makes browsing your tweets on your Mac simple – and does so in a familiar way. It’s simple, sure, but for some it just might be the best Twitter experience offered for the Mac. OS X used to [...]

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GistBox: An Web App To Organize Code Snippets

MOin — Fri, 17 May 2013 04:01:41 +0000

If you are a web developer or any kind of computer programmer, there must be code snippets that you find yourself using frequently. Even when you change your machine and are using somebody else’s computer to program, you still require these code snippets to work effectively and efficiently. While you can easily carry these code [...]

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Elevatr: Create, Store & Define In Detail Your Business Ideas On Your iPhone

moin — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:01:28 +0000

Business ideas need to be clearly defined from the get go otherwise missing details can greatly cost that business in the future. Here to help you clearly define your ideas is an app called Elevatr. Elevatr is a free to use smart device application compatible with iOS devices. The app comes sized at nearly 6.5 [...]

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Clickberry: Make Objects Within Your Videos Clickable To Enable Interaction With The Audience

moin — Fri, 17 May 2013 00:01:50 +0000

In the last few years, we have seen online video sharing get more popular every day. While there have been numerous amazing video platforms with excellent interfaces for video-makers to share their work on, the interaction options for the audiences have always been very limited. For example, if you check out a video on YouTube, [...]

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Nights Keeper: Control The Way Your Phone Rings At Night [Android]

Dave LeClair — Thu, 16 May 2013 22:01:49 +0000

Does your phone tend to ring late at night? This can be a great way to mess up your sleep cycle, as text messages and phone calls can often wait until the morning, but the ringtone will definitely wake you up. That being said, there are some calls you may want to receive late at [...]

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GoogleNowWallpaper: Apply a Google Now-Style Wallpaper On Your Android Homescreen

Umar — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:01:25 +0000

In Android phones, you will find the Google Now application, a tool that acts as an intelligent personal assistant. In Wikipedia’s words, the app “uses a natural language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of web services”. Truly the app helps out countless users every [...]

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Blinkbuggy: Record Your Baby’s Memories With Friends & Family Online

Umar — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:01:02 +0000

Not many years ago, parents use to keep “baby books” for their newborns. These books usually contained pictures and updates about the baby’s “firsts” and adorable events. But losing that baby book meant losing all of those important memories recorded within the book. The Internet provided an excellent solution in this arena, like many others. [...]

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PingIt: Customize & Filter Feeds According To Popularity & Keywords

Umar — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:01:03 +0000

PingIt is a web service completely free to use. The function of the application is to help you get customized RSS feeds that can be filtered using a variety of criteria that includes keywords as well as the popularity of the feed entries. But before you move onto the customized feeds features, you can use [...]

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SafeIP: Auto Hide Your IP Address Through a Secure Private Proxy

azim — Thu, 16 May 2013 02:01:26 +0000

If you want to browse the Internet without being identified, you have to connect through an online proxy server. It means that you simply go to an online proxy website, enter a website you want to visit anonymously, into the field and then browse your website through the proxy server’s interface. However, as much as you [...]

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Favoriteer: Put All Your Feeds In One Place

Joshua Lockhart — Thu, 16 May 2013 00:01:53 +0000

Here at MakeUseOf, we’re just as much as avid tech readers as we are writers, so sometimes, it’s nice to have all of our favorite technology blogs in one place. With the death of Google Reader, it’s been a little difficult finding the perfect RSS reader among the pool of ones that are out there, [...]

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Schemes: Send Scheduled Messages Via SMS, Facebook, Twitter Or Gmail [Android]

azim — Wed, 15 May 2013 22:01:11 +0000

If you forget to congratulate people (friends, relatives etc) on their birthdays or other special occasions more often than you’d like, check out Schemes. It is a useful app for Android that lets you schedule messages in advance and have them sent to people at a specified time. It lets you schedule messages via SMS, [...]

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Cloudii: Manage Multiple Cloud Services (Google Drive, Dropbox, Skydrive, Box) From a Single App [Android]

azim — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:01:37 +0000

Most people use online cloud storage services to store and manage their files and documents. The most popular cloud services today are Google Drive, Dropbox or SkyDrive, to name a few. You can access these services both from your desktop and mobile device. To use them from your mobile you will have to install their dedicated [...]

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21People for Windows 8 & Windows Phone: Cut Through The Noise In Your Social Media

Tim Brookes — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:01:20 +0000

Do you have too many Facebook friends? Do you follow back absolutely everyone on Twitter? Is Instagram just another big popularity contest? If you have difficulty saying no on social networks, there’s a good chance you’ve amassed an unmanageable number of contacts and other connections, most of which are simply noise drowning out the things [...]

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YourCVBuilder.com: Build A Professional-Looking CV Or Resume In 5 Minutes

Tim Brookes — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:01:50 +0000

The only thing less appealing than maintaining a CV is building one in the first place, and so many of us would jump at the opportunity to have software do it for us. While there’s no perfect CV layout, there’s also no perfect job application. With a positive outlook and up-to-date credentials, you stand as [...]

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Bytescout Screen Capturing: Record Screencast On Windows With Webcam & Microphone Support

MOin — Wed, 15 May 2013 02:01:59 +0000

Bytescout Screen Capturing is a piece of freeware that comes as a desktop application for computers running the Windows operating system. The function of the application is to let you record screencasts (make recordings of what goes on at your monitor’s display). The app offers a good number of very useful features including multiple recording [...]

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